This Week In The Business: A Billion Dollar Battle

STAT | $1.11 billion – Amount of revenue Activision earned in the first quarter of this year, down from $1.32 billion last year; the company projects revenues of $4.22 billion for the full year, compared to $4.3 billion in 2013 STAT | $1.12 billion – Amount Electronic Arts earned in the first quarter of this…

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Sonic the Hedgehog and his friends, racing through super high-res backdrops! These beautiful screenshots come to us from Duncan Harris at Dead End Thrills, who’s been using a debug build of Sonic & Allstars Racing Transformed provided by developer Sumo Interactive to grab some beautiful high-res images. Enjoy:…

PS4 Shooters Are Getting Pretty Weird

Sony has long had a gaping, Killzone-sized hole in its roster of PlayStation exclusive titles. This has left it shuffling behind arch-rival Microsoft, a company that’s always seemed to have a finger of the dudebro’s pulse when it comes to figuring out what people want from their shooters: Halo, Gears of War, Titanfall. If a…

Please Don’t Ask Repairmen To Fix Your Mario Kart

Poor guy. All he wanted was to provide a service: fixing go-karts. Instead, a jerk repeatedly responded with Mario Kart jokes. textastrophe, a blog that pranks people who post phone numbers online, came across the following Craigslist ad: This is the exchange that followed: Aww. Makes me laugh and kind of wish that this is…

Final Fantasy III Is Coming To PC

Over the past couple years, Square Enix has brought Final Fantasy VII and then Final Fantasy VIII to personal computers via Steam. Naturally, their next step is Final Fantasy III. There’s no release date for the game yet, but there’s a Steam listing up now. This looks like a port of the PSP version, optimized…

A Horror Game You Have To Face As A Two-Year-Old

YouTuber Jackfrags usually posts videos about Battlefield 4, but he took a break from that to play through Among The Sleep, an upcoming horror game where you play a toddler looking for his mother. The game is coming to PC, Mac and Linux. If you’re curious what it’s like to be a toddler in a…

They Took An Oculus Rift On A Real Roller Coaster For Some Reason

You may be asking yourself, why would anyone strap on an Oculus Rift while riding an actual roller coaster—why not just enjoy the experience of riding the roller coaster? Good question. And yet these guys snuck an Oculus Rift on a a real ride anyway. Edmond O’Driscoll and Jonathan Forder concealed the device under their…

Here’s your weekly JRPG discussion thread. No column this week, but chat about JRPGs right here. Playing anything good these days?